Comparison of the Poetics between British Ballads and Yao Ballads

Abstract

Although British ballads and Yao ballads are created in different backgrounds of language and culture, they all come from the folk and are characterized by the folk songs, not only following the principles of traditional poetry composing, but also reflecting the social reality in an easy-to-understand language. Actually they are rare intangible cultural heritages retained by human beings. In this paper, poetic characteristics of British ballads and Yao ballads are analyzed from three aspects of meter, rhythm, rhyme and poetic style. The purpose is to explain the commonality and uniqueness of different national literary systems, and to sum up the aesthetic value and development law of literary works. Meanwhile, it also expounds the similarities or unique features between British ballads and Yao ballads by discussing the typical composing techniques and poetic structure characteristics of the ballads of the two nationalities, so that a useful conclusion is drawn for philosophical, aesthetic and critical comparative research as well as a new comparative perspective is explored for comparative literature research